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Motifs
- Wolf swears by God. B251.7.1
- Man swears he will chastise devil for poaching. The devil appears; the man runs; the devil takes man's wife. C12.5.6
- Stick with money in it breaks and betrays thief who swears his innocence. H251.3.4
- Money in the stick. Before swearing, the cheater hands a stick containing the stolen money to the man he has stolen it from. He then swears that he has repaid it. J1161.4
- The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
- Impostor forces oath of secrecy. Hero or heroine swears not to tell of imposture. K1933
- King swears to become Christian if he wins battle. M177.1.1